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Monday, 5th April 2010

Wikimedia Releases Four Reports About Wikipedia Readers and Contributors; Data from 2008 User Survey

From a Blog Post:

In November 2008, the Collaborative Creativity Group at UNU-Merit, in partnership with the Wikimedia Foundation, launched the most comprehensive survey of Wikipedia readers and contributors ever conducted. The survey was translated into 20 languages and received more than 170,000 responses.

In April 2009, we shared preliminary results of the survey, and in August 2009, a member of the UNU-Merit team presented the survey at Wikimania (slides are available online).

Some key results from the survey have been widely reported, such as the finding that only about 13% of all Wikipedia contributors are female, a gender imbalance that poses a serious challenge to the Wikipedia project. The UNU-Merit group has now published four final reports [all reports are PDF files]:

+ the overview of results (11 pages)

+ a report on the perceived quality of Wikipedia content (9 pages)

+ a report on the reasons why people don’t contribute to Wikipedia (9 pages)

+ a report on the age and gender dynamics among Wikipedia readers and contributors, including subject matter interests (39 pages)

The UNU-Merit team is planning to make a comprehensive final report report available very soon, and to release the full, anonymized raw data later this year.

Source: Wikimedia Blog


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